I don't want to replace cron. I've been under the impression that upstart replaced it; that it was no longer available. If it works, I'll gladly use it.
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Toth, Csaba <[email protected]>wrote: > Why don't you just use cron/anacron? Why do you want to replace it with > upstart? > > Csaba > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf > of Curt Lundgren [[email protected]] > *Sent:* Sunday, June 09, 2013 11:45 AM > *To:* NLUG > *Subject:* [nlug] New to upstart, and it's not my friend > > <rant>OK, SysV is old and rotten–and it just works.</rant> > > I've spent a frustrating morning trying to figure out how to use an > upstart command to replace a cron job. In this particular case a job needs > to run, say, every half hour. This is the simplest possible thing in cron, > yet I can find nothing in any upstart documentation that is remotely > similar. > > There was no problem when I had a program that has to run all the time. > Created a new .conf file in /etc/init/ and it just runs. Whew. > > I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS. I'm quite comfortable with Red Hat and > CentOS, have enjoyed Raspbian Wheezy on a Pi. This is my first foray into > the land of Ubuntu, though not my first experience with upstart. > > Can anyone point me to documentation that explains how to replace cron > with upstart? I might want something to run once a day; I might want > something to run multiple times a day, all the usual cron permutations. > > Curt > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
